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Oof. Clicking this link got me blacklisted from my router. Had to spoof my MAC address to reconnect.

• Toutouxc 5y ago
  What?
  • i_like_apis 5y ago
    The router I'm connecting with is this Meraki thing I don't manage. It has some security features. Upon opening a link to blackhat.com, it put my MAC address on a blacklist.
    • mr_toad 5y ago
      Sounds like you should put the manufacturer on a blacklist.
    • djrogers 5y ago
      That is so completely bass-ackwards it’s not even comprehensible. If the router knows you’re trying to connect to a malicious site, it should block your access to that site. Taking action against your device in this scenario doesn’t serve any purpose at all. I’m going to assume that this router is incredibly misconfigured, and that’s not a default behavior.
      • i_like_apis 5y ago
        I think the logic is that if you're browsing blackhat.com then you are a malicious user, going there to download hacking tools or attacking the network.
      • exikyut 5y ago
        Routers are stupid (and the engineering around them is often incompetent), here's a random incidental example of how they used to make life hard for Chrome 10 years ago: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=12066#c26 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=12066#...
  • phs2501 5y ago
    Overzealous "protection" filtering presumably (guessing from the Blackhat name). Happens on corporate VPNs too. We can't have nice things.
• drvdevd 5y ago
  Sounds like you need DoH in your browser too?